The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is a technology demonstrator. The hope is that Ingenuity will one day lead to future generations of ever-more capable rotorcraft and other aerial vehicles for Mars exploration and other planetary science missions. This paper builds upon nearly twenty-four years of Mars rotorcraft and planetary aerial vehicle work at NASA Ames Research Center. It is posited that a spectrum of different Mars aerial vehicle mission concepts and capabilities could be developed over the next couple of decades – all of which are now potentially enabled by Ingenuity. A series of technology challenges or problems are also detailed in this paper. These problems are presented as an aid in helping establish a nascent planetary rotorcraft or planetary aerial vehicle research community as well as, maybe, helping realize some of the vehicle/mission concepts discussed in the paper.


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    Title :

    Future of Rotorcraft and other Aerial Vehicles for Mars Exploration


    Contributors:
    L. A. Young (author) / P. Lee (author) / E. Aiken (author) / G. Briggs (author) / G. M. Pisanich (author) / S. Withrow-Maser (author) / H. Cummings (author)

    Publication date :

    2021


    Size :

    21 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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